Vaughn Climenhaga, a geometer at the University of Houston, wrote to invite you to a workshop there May 15-17, with a preparatory pre-workshop event for graduate students May 13-14. The theme of the workshop is hyperbolicity in dynamical systems, including thermodynamic formalism, statistical properties, partial and non-uniform hyperbolicity, cocycles and rigidity, connections to geometry, and dimension theory.…
Month: January 2020
Graduate Student Mental Health
One of the things that concerns me as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies at Michigan has been the mental health of our graduate students. It seems that students feel under much more pressure than ever, with anxiety levels increasing dramatically over the past decade, and especially in the most recent five years or so. I…
Support and Advice from Rackham
Please consider taking advantage of the following sessions from Rackham. These might be helpful if you are stressing about finding an advisor or about your relationship with your advisor, stressing about how to write cover letters, stressing about the difference between a “CV” and a “Resume” or just plain stressing! Main Campus Events Restorative…
Research at Michigan TOMORROW
Don’t miss junior colloquium this week! Our Research at Michigan Series continues with Professor Liliana Borcea, telling us about her work On the continuum limit of inverse spectral problems As usual, the event is held in Room 3088, Friday at 4 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend, but all graduate students are especially encouraged to come.…
Opportunity to speak at SIAM meeting this summer
Our Marjorie Lee Browne speaker, Dr. Ricardo Cortez, told us today that he is recruiting graduate students and post-docs to be speakers this July at the SIAM Annual meeting, where he is organizing a session in celebration of diversity. Please reach out to him directly by email today or better yet—come meet him after his talk…
Marjorie lee Browne Talk TODAY
Our department has hosted a Marjorie Lee Browne Distinguished Lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday each year since 1999. Marjorie Lee Brown was our department’s first, and one the nation’s first, African American women to earn the PhD degree in mathematics in 1949. She was a tremendous influence on generations of students in…
Professor Sasha Barvinok to speak in Junior Colloquium Friday
Please join us for the first Junior Colloquium of the Semester. Tomorrow the “Research at Michigan” series continues with Professor Sasha Barvinok telling us about his research into The mathematics of computational complexity. Room 3088 from 4 to 5pm. Everyone is welcome, but all math graduate students are especially encouraged to learn about what kind of…
Allies Grants from Rackham
Rackham offers “Faculty Ally” grants up to 12K per year, for the purpose of making departments better for all graduate students, including students from under-represented demographics. A few years ago, PhD student Patricia Klein took the lead on designing a program to fund speaker travel to our seminars. We were able to use this money,…
Graduate Student Conference in Topology in April
The organizers wrote to invite you to the 2020 Conference for Graduate Students in Topology and Geometry, if you are a PhD student doing research in topology/geometry or considering these areas as a research direction. They have funding! Please check it out below, and apply directly to the conference using the instructions they provide. Note that…
Interesting and Meaningful Summer Teaching in NYC or LA
“This summer, change the lives of underserved students with exceptional potential in math” Ruthi Hortsch (BS UM, 2012) wrote to recruit Michigan math graduate students, post-docs and faculty to teach math this summer for BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics), an enrichment program for underserved urban youth. After Michigan, Ruthi wrote her PhD in number…